100 Movies To See Before You Die!

[fatman17]

Many movies are good, some are great, but only a select few can be called truly "essential." After heated discussions, long negotiations, and a shouting match or two, the staff at Yahoo! Movies has put together this list of the 100 films you must see before you die. To choose the titles for the list, we considered factors like historical importance and cultural impact. But we also selected films that we believe are the most thrilling, most dramatic, scariest, and funniest movies of all time. Some of these films you've seen, and some you may not have heard of, but we believe that each one is a timeless classic that you absolutely have to see.


12 Angry Men (1957)
Directed By: Sidney Lumet
Starring: Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, E. G. Marshall

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Directed By: Stanley Kubrick
Starring: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester

The 400 Blows (1959)Directed By: Francois Truffaut
Starring: Jean-Pierre Leaud, Patrick Auffay

8 ½ (1963)
Directed By: Federico Fellini
Starring: Marcello Mastroianni, Anouk Aimee

The African Queen (1952)
Directed By: John Huston
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Morley

Alien (1979)
Directed By: Ridley Scott
Starring: Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright

All About Eve (1950)
Directed By: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Starring: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders

Annie Hall (1977)
Directed By: Woody Allen
Starring: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton

Apocalypse Now (1979)Directed By: Francis Ford Coppola
Starring: Marlon Brando, Martin Sheen, Robert Duvall

The Battle of Algiers (1967)Directed By: Gillo Pontecorvo
Starring: Jean Martin, Yacef Saadi, Brahim Haggiag

The Bicycle Thief (1948)Directed By: Vittorio De Sica
Starring: Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola


Blade Runner (1982)
Directed By: Ridley Scott
Starring: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young

Blazing Saddles (1974)
Directed By: Mel Brooks
Starring: Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Slim Pickens

Blow Up (1966)
Directed By: Michelangelo Antononi
Starring: David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles

Blue Velvet (1986)Directed By: David Lynch
Starring: Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper

Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Directed By: Arthur Penn
Starring: Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard

Breathless (1960)
Directed By: Jean-Luc Godard
Starring: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg

The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
Directed By: David Lean
Starring: William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins,

Bringing Up Baby (1938)Directed By: Howard Hawks
Starring: Cary Grant, Katherine Hepburn

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Directed By: George Roy Hill
Starring: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross

Casablanca (1942)
Directed By: Michael Curtiz
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid

Chinatown (1974)
Directed By: Roman Polanski
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston

Citizen Kane (1941)
Directed By: Orson Welles
Starring: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
Directed By: Ang Lee
Starring: Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Ziyi Zhang

Die Hard (1988)Directed By: John McTiernan
Starring: Bruce Willis, Bonnie Bedelia, Alan Rickman

Do the Right Thing (1989)Directed By: Spike Lee
Starring: Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee


Double Indemnity (1944)
Directed By: Billy Wilder
Starring: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Directed By: Stanley Kubrick
Starring: Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden

Duck Soup (1933)Directed By: Leo McCarey
Starring: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Directed By: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Dee Wallace Stone, Henry Thomas, Drew Barrymore

Enter the Dragon (1973)
Directed By: Robert Clouse
Starring: Bruce Lee, John Saxon, Jim Kelly

The Exorcist (1973)
Directed By: William Friedkin
Starring: Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Linda Blair,

Fast Times At Ridgemont High (1982)
Directed By: Amy Heckerling
Starring: Sean Penn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judge Reinhold,

The French Connection (1971)
Directed By: William Friedkin
Starring: Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Roy Scheider

The Godfather (1972)
Directed By: Francis Ford Coppola
Starring: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan,

The Godfather, Part II (1974)
Directed By: Francis Ford Coppola
Starring: Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton

Goldfinger (1964)Directed By: Guy Hamilton
Starring: Sean Connery, Honor Blackman

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1968)
Directed By: Sergio Leone
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef

Goodfellas (1990)
Directed By: Martin Scorsese
Starring: Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci

The Graduate (1967)
Directed By: Mike Nichols
Starring: Anne Bancroft, Dustin Hoffman, Katharine Ross,

Grand Illusion (1938)
Directed By: Jean Renoir
Starring: Jean Gabin, Pierre Fresnay, Erich von Stroheim

Groundhog Day (1993)
Directed By: Harold Ramis
Starring: Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell, Chris Elliott

A Hard Day's Night (1964)Directed By: Richard Lester
Starring: The Beatles

In the Mood For Love (2001)
Directed By: Wong Kar-Wai
Starring: Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung

It Happened One Night (1934)
Directed By: Frank Capra
Starring: Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert

It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Directed By: Frank Capra
Starring: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore

Jaws (1975)Directed By: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss

King Kong (1933)
Directed By: Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Shoedsack
Starring: Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong

The Lady Eve (1941)
Directed By: Preston Sturges
Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn

Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Directed By: David Lean
Starring: Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn

The Lord of the Rings (2001,2002,2003)Directed By: Peter Jackson
Starring: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen

M (1931)Directed By: Fritz Lang
Starring: Peter Lorre, Theodor Loos, Otto Wernicke

M*A*S*H (1970)
Directed By: Robert Altman
Starring: Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Tom Skerritt

The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Directed By: John Huston
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Sydney Greenstreet

The Matrix (1999)
Directed By: Larry Wachowski, Andy Wachowski
Starring: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss

Modern Times (1936)
Directed By: Charlie Chaplin
Starring: Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard

Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
Directed By: Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones
Starring: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin

National Lampoon's Animal House (1978)Directed By: John Landis
Starring: John Belushi, Tim Matheson


Network (1976)
Directed By: Sidney Lumet
Starring: Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch

Nosferatu (1922)
Directed By: F.W. Murnau
Starring: Max Schreck, Gustave Von Wagenheim, Greta Schroeder,

On the Waterfront (1954)
Directed By: Elia Kazan
Starring: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Directed By: Milos Forman
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, William Redfield

Paths of Glory (1958)Directed By: Stanley Kubrick
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Ralph Meeker, Adolphe Menjou


Princess Mononoke (1999)
Directed By: Hayao Miyazaki
Starring: Billy Crudup, Billy Bob Thornton, Minnie Driver

Psycho (1960)
Directed By: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh

Pulp Fiction (1994)
Directed By: Quentin Tarantino
Starring: John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman

Raging Bull (1980)
Directed By: Martin Scorsese
Starring: Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty-Gentile, Joe Pesci

Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Directed By: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman

Raise the Red Lantern (1992)
Directed By: Zhang Yimou
Starring: Gong Li, He Caifei, Cao Cuifeng

Rashomon (1951)Directed By: Akira Kurosawa
Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Masayuki Mori, Machiko Kyo

Rear Window (1954)
Directed By: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Raymond Burr

Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
Directed By: Nicholas Ray
Starring: James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo

Rocky (1976)
Directed By: John Avildsen
Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young

Roman Holiday (1953)
Directed By: William Wyler
Starring: Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn, Eddie Albert

Saving Private Ryan (1998)Directed By: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore

Schindler's List (1993)
Directed By: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes

The Searchers (1956)
Directed By: John Ford
Starring: John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles

Seven Samurai (1954)
Directed By: Akira Kurosawa
Starring: Takashi Shimura, Toshiro Mifune, Yoshio Inaba

The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Directed By: Frank Darabont
Starring: Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman

The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Directed By: Jonathan Demme
Starring: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn

Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Directed By: Stanley Donen, Gene Kelley
Starring: Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)Directed By: David Hand
Starring: Adriana Caselotti, Harry Stockwell

Some Like It Hot (1959)
Directed By: Billy Wilder
Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon

The Sound of Music (1965)
Directed By: Robert Wise
Starring: Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer

Star Wars (1977)
Directed By: George Lucas
Starring: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher

Sunset Blvd. (1950)
Directed By: Billy Wilder
Starring: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim

Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
Directed By: James Cameron
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton

The Third Man (1949)
Directed By: Carol Reed
Starring: Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles

This is Spinal Tap (1984)
Directed By: Rob Reiner
Starring: Rob Reiner, Michael McKean, Christopher Guest

Titanic (1997)Directed By: James Cameron
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet

To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Directed By: Robert Mulligan
Starring: Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, Phillip Alford

Toy Story (1995)
Directed By: John Lasseter
Starring: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Don Rickles

The Usual Suspects (1995)Directed By: Bryan Singer
Starring: Kevin Spacey, Gabriel Byrne

Vertigo (1958)Directed By: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: James Stewart, Kim Novak

When Harry Met Sally... (1989)
Directed By: Rob Reiner
Starring: Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan, Carrie Fisher

Wild Strawberries (1957)
Directed By: Ingmar Bergman
Starring: Victor Sjostrom, Gunnar Bjornstrand, Ingrid Thulin

Wings of Desire (1988)
Directed By: Wim Wenders
Starring: Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin, Otto Sander

The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Directed By: Victor Fleming
Starring: Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988)Directed By: Pedro Almodovar
Starring: Carmen Maura, Antonio Banderas


The World of Apu (1959)
Directed By: Satyajit Ray
Starring: Soumitra Chatterjee, Sharmila Tagore, Swampan Mukerjee,



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seen 72 of these, so i have to see the remaining 18!

 

[muse]

You may also enjoy "Le Salaire de la peur" with Yves Montand and it's remake "Sorcerers" with Roy Scheider. Also "children of Heaven" and "Color of Paradise" by Majid Majidi and Also "marmoulak"

Any comments on the "Grand illusion"

 

[S-2]

I think movies not already listed in the top 100-

Das Boot, Zulu, The Longest Day, Retreat, Hell!, The Bridges At Toko-Ri, Attack & Retreat, The Sands of Iwo Jima, Henry V, All Quiet On The Western Front, and a personal favorite-Taras Bulba-

I love the movie score by Franz Waxman on this scene. Enjoy-

Seventy-eight, fatman17. Bunch of other cool movies that could easily have been there, I believe, but a good list nonetheless.

ZAPOROSTI!!!-

 

[fatman17]

I think movies not already listed in the top 100-

Das Boot, Zulu, The Longest Day, Retreat, Hell!, The Bridges At Toko-Ri, Attack & Retreat, The Sands of Iwo Jima, Henry V, All Quiet On The Western Front, and a personal favorite-Taras Bulba-

I love the movie score by Franz Waxman on this scene. Enjoy-

yrrwzfAI5uU[/media] - Taras Bulba (J. L. Thompson, 1962) The Ride of the Cossacks

Seventy-eight, fatman17. Bunch of other cool movies that could easily have been there, I believe, but a good list nonetheless.

ZAPOROSTI!!!-

all great movies!

 

[fatman17]

You may also enjoy "Le Salaire de la peur" with Yves Montand and it's remake "Sorcerers" with Roy Scheider. Also "children of Heaven" and "Color of Paradise" by Majid Majidi and Also "marmoulak"

Any comments on the "Grand illusion"

seen Sorcerers, Children of Heaven!

 

[S-2]

Final attack scene from ZULU-

Michael Caine's first movie. Ipcress File was next. Stanley Baker directed. Epic stuff, this...

 

[fatman17]

Final attack scene from ZULU-

YrZbUS0MaY4[/media] - Zulu

Michael Caine's first movie. Ipcress File was next. Stanley Baker directed. Epic stuff, this...

yes indeed and the follow-up movie to ipcress file, funeral in berlin!

 

[osamaziadxb]

i have seen 30 movies in Sir Fatman's List..

i have read the novel "to kill a mocking bird " but want to c movie too ..i have searched but seeds r not enough.
From where can i download it?
thankx

 

[Beskar]

i have seen 30 movies in Sir Fatman's List..

i have read the novel "to kill a mocking bird " but want to c movie too ..i have searched but seeds r not enough.
From where can i download it?
thankx

To Kill A Mockingbird (1962) ****** (SiRiUs sHaRe) : Movies > Drama - Mininova

 

[osamaziadxb]

To Kill A Mockingbird (1962) ****** (SiRiUs sHaRe) : Movies > Drama - Mininova

thankx Bezerk
Now it has enough seeds

 

[Contrarian]

This one cannot be missed even if your dead:

Reshma Ki Jawaani

 

[fatman17]

two more movies worth seeing:

Peter Wier's Breaker Morant - story of australians aerving in the british army fighting the boer's. and Galipolli - story of anzacs fighting the turks.

 

[Xeric]

i have only seen a few of Fatman's list, would try to get the remaining.

BTW what about A Murder of Crows, Walking Over the Clouds and the one not that old...i m forgetting the name in which two magicians are screwing each other.

 

[Bhushan]

The Complete List - ALL-TIME 100 Movies - TIME Magazine


* A - C
* Aguirre: the Wrath of God (1972)
*

* The Apu Trilogy (1955, 1956, 1959)
*

* The Awful Truth (1937)
*

* Baby Face (1933)
*

* Bande à part (1964)
*

* Barry Lyndon (1975)
*

* Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980)
*

* Blade Runner (1982)
*

* Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
*

* Brazil (1985)
*

* Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
*

* Camille (1936)
*

* Casablanca (1942)
*

* Charade (1963)
*

* Children of Paradise (1945)
*

* Chinatown (1974)
*

* Chungking Express (1994)
*

* Citizen Kane (1941)
*

* City Lights (1931)
*

* City of God (2002)
*

* Closely Watched Trains (1966)
*

* The Crime of Monsieur Lange (1936)
*

* The Crowd (1928)


* D - F
* Day for Night (1973)
*

* The Decalogue (1989)
*

* Detour (1945)
*

* The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
*

* Dodsworth (1936)
*

* Double Indemnity (1944)
*

* Dr. Strangelove: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
*

* Drunken Master II (1994)
*

* E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
*

* 8 1/2 (1963)
*

* The 400 Blows (1959)
*

* Farewell My Concubine (1993)
*

* Finding Nemo (2003)
*

* The Fly (1986)




* G - J
* The Godfather, Parts I and II (1972, 1974)
*

* The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966)
*

* Goodfellas (1990)
*

* A Hard Day's Night (1964)
*

* His Girl Friday (1940)
*

* Ikiru (1952)
*

* In A Lonely Place (1950)
*

* Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
*

* It's A Gift (1934)
*

* It's A Wonderful Life (1946)


* K - M
* Kandahar (2001)
*

* Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
*

* King Kong (1933)
*

* The Lady Eve (1941)
*

* The Last Command (1928)
*

* Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
*

* Léolo (1992)
*

* The Lord of the Rings (2001-03)
*

* The Man With a Camera (1929)
*

* The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
*

* Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
*

* Metropolis (1927)
*

* Miller's Crossing (1990)
*

* Mon oncle d'Amérique (1980)
*

* Mouchette (1967)


* N - P
* Nayakan (1987)
*

* Ninotchka (1939)
*

* Notorious (1946)
*

* Olympia, Parts 1 and 2 (1938)
*

* On the Waterfront (1954)
*

* Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
*

* Out of the Past (1947)
*

* Persona (1966)
*

* Pinocchio (1940)
*

* Psycho (1960)
*

* Pulp Fiction (1994)
*

* The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)
*

* Pyaasa (1957)



* Q - S
* Raging Bull (1980)
*

* Schindler's List (1993)
*

* The Searchers (1956)
*

* Sherlock, Jr. (1924)
*

* The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
*

* Singin' in the Rain (1952)
*

* The Singing Detective (1986)
*

* Smiles of a Summer Night (1955)
*

* Some Like It Hot (1959)
*

* Star Wars (1977)
*

* A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
*

* Sunrise (1927)
*

* Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
*

* Swing Time (1936)


* T - Z
* Talk to Her (2002)
*

* Taxi Driver (1976)
*

* Tokyo Story (1953)
*

* A Touch of Zen (1971)
*

* Ugetsu (1953)
*

* Ulysses' Gaze (1995)
*

* Umberto D (1952)
*

* Unforgiven (1992)
*

* White Heat (1949)
*

* Wings of Desire (1987)
*

* Yojimbo (1961)

 

[Bhushan]

Letters From Iwo Jima, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, The Bucket List, Wall-E, Crash, City Of Gods, Enemy Of The State, The Pursuit of Happiness, Seabiscuit,Flags Of Our Fathers .... are my favourite movies and i feel some of them deserve a spot in top 100 movies of all time.